Tibebu Bekele
Tibebu Bekele (tibebu@gmail.com), who is interested in constructive dialogue and civil engagement.
Jul 10 , 2020 . By Tibebu Bekele
Social reengineering is a complex enterprise. It hardly ever goes the way it is envis...
Dec 28 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
Every high-ranking officeholder takes an oath of office which, among other things, requires them to pledge allegiance and loyalty to the Eth...
Dec 21 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
Alexandria, Bangkok, Basra, Mumbai, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City are some of the well-known cities in the world that could be submerged und...
Dec 14 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
The saying that we are living in a post-fact world is gaining currency. It is not difficult to see why. The hotly debated and fiercely conte...
Dec 7 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
This past week was dominated by the news of a seeming rift between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) and his long time ally and friend, Minist...
Nov 30 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
I am not a big fan of importing cultural holidays from the West and commercialising them here in Ethiopia. But I also realise in this 21st c...
Nov 25 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
Two events that happened last week need to get more attention, as they may point a way out of Ethiopia's...
Nov 16 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
Studying the history of revolutions all over the world is an exercise in the study of failures. Almost all revolutions, perhaps with the exc...
Nov 9 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
The 1994 Ethiopian Constitution has been a bone of contention going on for more than two decades and a half now. Perhaps that should not com...
Nov 2 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
It is not that simple. It is not black or white. It is all kinds of shades of grey. That is life. It is hard. But even a casual glance on...
Oct 26 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
I have a distinct memory of a conversation I had with a friend many moons ago. He is a few years older than myself and someone we looked up...
Oct 19 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele
The dictionary definition of a vicious circle is “a chain of events in which the response to one difficulty creates a new problem that agg...
May 9 , 2026
The Ethiopian state appears to have discovered a fiscal instrument that is politicall...
May 2 , 2026
By the time Ethiopia's National Dialogue Commission (ENDC) reached the end of its fir...
Apr 25 , 2026
In a political community, official speeches show what governments want their citizens...
For much of the past three decades, Ethiopia occupied a familiar place in the Western...